An inspiring artist retreat in Washington with amazing views of Mount Hood

Perched on the slopes of Bald Mountain above White Salmon, Washington, this artist’s retreat, designed by Scott Edwards Architecture, commands sweeping views of the Columbia River Gorge and Mt. Hood. The site’s natural topography shaped the design: two structures nestled into the steep hillside, the

Inside a contemporary Scandinavian-inspired home in Vermont’s Green Mountains

This exceptionally designed contemporary home by Elizabeth Herrmann Architecture was built deep in the Mad River Valley, in the heart of Vermont’s Green Mountains. The home offers a modern, streamlined Scandinavian sensibility while honoring the rugged surroundings. Architect Elizabeth Herrmann aime

Bankston and FOR SCALE Make the Case for Hardware as High Design

Doors have been considered symbolic portals for millennia: thresholds through which the unknown lies, where one condition gives way to another. The door is never just an opening; it is an arrival, a pause, a decision, a passage. Yet the hardware that mediates that moment is still too often treated a

A Tokyo Building Offers an Elegant Answer to Urban Compression

On an 880-square-foot site in Toshima City—roughly the size of a generous one-bedroom apartment—Key Operation Inc. / Architects has produced a building that contains shops, clinics, cafés, maisonette residences, a curved atrium, a bouldering wall, a slide, and a hammock net suspended within a loft v